Q: Do you read for yourself and/or for others? Why or why not? I started reading for myself back in 1999, and occasionally for husband or friends. Then I pretty much stopped until 2011, when I met a lovely lady originally from Yorkshire, who now lives in Caithness on the northern edges of Scotland. Sara […]
The Power of the Cards: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q19
Q: Do you feel/think the cards “think” or have their own consciousness? What do you believe makes the cards “tick?” (Is it magic/outside influences or all in the mind?) My belief system on this: Physics, actually. All aspects of the space-time fabric are connected, like threads in a tapestry, at quantum (very small) levels and […]
Connecting with My Cards: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q18
Q18: Do you feel a “connection” to your cards? Well, since I feel a quantum-level energetic connection to all matter in the universe, including the particles that make up Tarot cards, I suppose that’s literally true. Also true at the macro level of the cards being influenced by my and the querent’s psychic energies as the […]
Reversals: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q17
Q: Do you do readings using reversals? Why or why not? I used to, if the deck creator used them in their guidance. I am generally a firm believer in respecting the tradition of the deck and its creators. I love to use the theme and mythology of the deck to guide the flavor of my […]
Grandfathers: A Samhain Tarot Blog Hop
PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG Grandfathers, grandmothers . . . and fathers, now. Blessed Samhain, everyone. Feel the presence of those who have passed, for they are closer now as the darkness looms longer and the days grow shorter. Our wondrous wrangler, Aisling the Bard, has tasked us for some serious self-reflection with the spirits of […]
Majors or Minors Alone: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q16
Q: Do you ever use the Major Arcana without the Minor Arcana or vice versa? Actually, except as part of Tarot learning groups I’ve participated in, no. I’ve thought about it for certain questions (like keeping to just the Minors for mundane daily questions), but I like to give the Tarot the freedom to let […]
Intuition vs. Set Meanings: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q15
Q: How much emphasis do you put on the text-book meanings for cards, and how much stress do you place on the “feeling” you get from cards through their artwork/symbolism/etc. (aka reading intuitively)? Do you do both, or one or the other? I do both, about 50/50, really. I have an energetic philosophy about reader […]
Why Do You Ask?: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q14
Q: For what purposes do you usually use the Tarot (self-reflection, guidance, advice, recreation, communing with spirits/dead, communication with deity, other)? Many of the above. Not a medium, so I don’t contact spirits who’ve passed on, and not for recreation per se, since I do believe the cards and reader together tap into universal energies. […]
